big picture. egyptians head to the polls to say yes or no to a new constitution triggered fears the country is turning into an islamic dictatorship causing weeks of deadly protests. an elementary school in the northeastern united states becomes a slaughterhouse gunman targeting children reignites the debate over like sam's control. hundreds gather in the center of moscow to mark a year since some of the biggest protests in recent a russian history several people arrested over this an authorized rally. for the first time but european court describes the cia treatment of terror suspects as torture siding with a german who mistakenly fell victim to the agency's interrogation techniques.

worldwide news live from moscow this is with me rory sushi it's good to have you with us egyptians are voting on the new draft constitution that has split the country in weeks of violent and tea president protests now the referendum is seen as a decisive moment that will show which way the majority of egyptians are leaning towards the ruling islamists or the liberal opposition cairo based reporter bel true is following the. after three weeks of political turmoil that seen mass rallies against the president time to also bloody scenes in the streets of egypt's major cities overnight the military apparently beefed up security at the polling stations for people to come and vote they of course have been called in by the president to

secure the nation during this time of political unrest and the referendum we expect out hundreds of thousands of police officers and soldiers in the streets today ensuring that the scenes are calm this comes after violent scenes yesterday on friday and on xandra egypt's second city which saw clashes between rival protest groups to support the constitution those against it including groups wielding machetes. also ion roads and around about nineteen injured and possible we haven't had that confirmed yet this of course follows several weeks worth of buying seats on the streets of cairo the referendum is actually being held across two days as there are not so sufficient number of judges to supervise the process this opposition forces say is a major problem and could open up the referendum to vote rigging in addition civil society groups here questioning how that is possible for them to observe the

elections to for electoral fraud since the head of the constituent assembly who drafted the constitution is also the head of the national human rights council he will be overseeing the observation all the polling stations the constitution itself is a major point of contention also the opposition forces they have said that it is written by islamist dominated constituent assembly to somebody when this mass will cross by liberal leftist and church and therefore it will only enforce a religious state it also they said would impose a presidential dictatorship and they collect key rights and freedoms of expression so this constitution they say should be rewritten the constituent assembly should be reforged so we'll have to see. the results of the referendum they feature in it . and already mass violations during the egyptian voting are already being reported this coupled with a lack of unity among the opposition are likely to result in the referendum not reflecting the people's real will that's according to journalist and middle east

analyst with fact that. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building consensus he is shown to be a very stubborn person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the scene in egypt right now it's an indicative there there is going to be a mass. playing with the results there is already reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably with yes for the constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and the mobilization of the voters are not going as it should have been going so it's not really representative of the

nations when or of the consensus the truth have been existing. this is r.t. nato countries that are ploy more than a thousand troops to man up patriot batteries along turkey's border with syria just a bit later in the program here on the channel we look at all benefit from putting western forces near the front lines of syria's escalating civil conflict. for now twenty six people are being gunned down twenty of them children in a u.s. elementary school in central connecticut and the brutal massacre ended only when the killer turned the gun on himself for the story now to r.t. this guy in a chicken. there's still lots of questions as to what happened at that elementary school in connecticut the shooter has been identified at this point it was adam lanza twenty year old who went into his mother's kindergarten class she was a teacher at that school and wiped out the entire class twenty children were killed in the carnage eighteen children died at the scene to the hospital those were five

year olds six year olds small children the shooter also targeted and killed six adults and unless his mother the teacher was also found dead in her home she lived near the school the suspect it's three is the suspected shooter had three guns on him as he went into the school two handguns and one semiautomatic weapon all reportedly registered to adam lanza's mother a witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired after killing all these people adam lanza reportedly shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the us in the past but never has there been a rampage that killed this many small children in two thousand and seven a student killed two people at virginia tech we of course remember the columbine massacre in colorado where two students shot and killed thirteen people and injured twenty four but the children killed in connecticut were very very young we heard

president obama deliver tearful speech this friday but nevertheless the white house has pretty much dodged questions on its gun policy and those are questions on many people's minds right now but the president did say it's time to take meaningful action to prevent mess occurs like this from happening again but what action he did not specify is the fact of the matter is that getting a gun is fairly easy in the u.s. adam lanza's mother apparently had no problem purchasing and registering story guns one of them a semi automatic weapon and it's a powerful deadly weapon one of the policy goals of president obama was a ban on assault weapons but is thought to be a losing proposition for any politician in the u.s. to. really seriously consider seriously take on the issue attempts to regulate guns inevitably hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment the right of the people to bear arms some states here do have controls over gun possession but again very limited controls the state of illinois for example used to have

a ban on concealed weapons but this week a federal court ruling struck down the country's last such poor vision as unconstitutional and ordered the state to craft a law allowing it so much for gun control in the us the state of wisconsin tossed out its ban on concealed weapons last year and it seems there is no way of arguing against the amendment even despite the absolute horrifying and recurring incidents you know this latest tragedy has reopened the debate on what many see as weak gun control laws in america. into the white house to witness an anti guns rally. many people are taking their concerns to the front of the white house as you can see about one hundred people are gathered here holding signs holding candles trying to make their voices heard saying that now is the time to talk about gun control and the u.s. we spoke to some of the protesters here's what they had to say today we saw

a roomful of kindergartners slaughtered by a guy who never should have gotten a gun. if our president can't talk about it the issue now as a father of two daughters young daughters i think it's time for him for a gut check in there's no more and no more excuses anymore this should not have happened we should have measures in place before this to prevent people from accessing guns who are not fit to hold them also in my opinion i don't think something that is military grade as an assault rifle i don't think that should be in the hands of anybody it's not a toy and we can't keep our teachers and our children and our school administrators safe and it very day we can't keep people who are walking down the streets safe then that should be changed and to resign ourselves to the saying that this is a problem that has a solution is defeatist and we should we should take this on and change what we did hear from press secretary jay carney earlier this morning who said today is not the day to be talking about gun control we also heard

a very emotional speech from president obama sending his condolences to the victims to the family is in newtown connecticut he did not talk about the issue of guns or gun control but protesters here say if today is not the day in the wake of this very tragic mass shooting they don't know when that time. and washington liz wall are two. several hundreds of people have gathered in the center of moscow to mach one year since some of the biggest government protests in russia's recent history a number of people have already been arrested for taking part in the unauthorized you're looking at live pictures right here from central moscow correspondent you go to prison officers right there in the area let's cross live to him right now and get the latest from good to see you today or what so what exactly happening in the square where you are right now. well several hundred people have gathered in central moscow marking one year since the start of anti-government protest did not sanction any around these in this particularly way saying that usually there's very

heavy traffic here and any mass gatherings me cause some additional problems several people have been detained including opposition leaders. and then it's you know when the claim that they were detained on lawfully saying that if you will who came here today are not taking part in any rallies there are just one else side for a walk. all in all there were a long to go see sions before with the opposition and the city authorities were proposing other routes but they couldn't reach an agreement and if you compare what's happening here today to the events of last year in december then well itself no comparison since then we saw tens of thousands of people gathering on here like i said we're just talking about a few hundred. you're going to it's going to live in central moscow thank you. for you watching on t.v. a tough economic times in the u.k. taking their toll on british diets. the program reform and how soaring food prices

in the u.k. a forcing many to say no to a healthy meal but also. go back to church to read the bible and to find faith and to remember what the holiday is supposed to be for i just think people shouldn't think that every year has to be the best christmas ever just a bit later in the program here on r.t. laurie hof and it's christmas people in the big apple over whether today's christmas as a last something of a traditional buy chicken fat and much more after a short. the san bernardino california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit turn a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing

waves of gang violence theft and drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back on to the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police chief really only had one solution offer a given situation go home lock your doors and load it and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america's always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chiefs honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his fence at night that homeowners are going to go to jail for life you can't expect that a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion.

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i know we're just quarter past the hour moscow time this is r.t. that the u.s. germany of the netherlands are deploying patriot missiles along with around twelve hundred troops on turkey's border with syria and claims the move will protect ankara from a possible strike by its neighbor other critics say conflict on syria is rather unlikely to an attack an alliance member. turkey or so eager to defend itself from its former friend. he may have treated his command bridge for an apartment in his done ball but returned admiral turk or in return still keeps tabs on his country's foreign policy and he doesn't like what he sees like many turkish beetroots the admiral believes his country is second feis in commonsense and domestic concerns from western interests. turkey is looking at the middle east through america's eyes for a purely turkish perspective for example with syria turkey claims it wants to see

democracy in syria but look who it's working with saudi arabia qatar and their democratic credit is wanting. forget the zero problems with neighbor's rule which in corral has prided itself on for many decades critics now see turkey as dancing to one nations. kill people but that does not suffice. for. which they were scared. because you need. food in those countries social strata some people internalize u.s. policy and represent in the countries that have been invaded so this is very tricky comes in geographically and culturally it's a great base camp for the likes of the us and nato to take a foothold in their anti us and ambitions it was just two years ago that turkey was

calling bashar lost a brother and voting against sanctions on iran it's relatively recent change every heart however may not have everything to do with turkey's desire to appease the west and may indeed be part of the plan by turkish officials to become a regional if not global major players. has. it was some other years ago. it was true i. learned about. member of connect nation. independent state. turkey has any rights. to remain and yet turkish officials seem to skirt the issue of their internal problems and instead turn their attention elsewhere in syria the case in point with the likes of

retired admiral believe. one should its present commanders continue on the prudent course even though. of course are we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow do you still think it's you watching the t.v. and not the other way around one company has now revealed of the technology to make the t.v. spy on its own using a built in camera and microphone. at r.t. dot com. i'm not afraid to get dirty to look good young woman here in russia dives into a rubbish to retrieve the make up she accidentally threw away you can hear all about her leap of faith online.

just a moment on the r.t. world update for now the cia agents illegally abducted a german citizen sort of ised him and beat him up over the findings right there of the european court of human rights in its first ever ruling that the cia is guilty of torture the court found in favor of a man who had failed for years to give legal acknowledgment in the u.s. what about chile happened to him. says he was kidnapped in two thousand and three and abused after being mistaken for a terrorism suspect the us is now being pursued for an apology compensation but also at historian doug valentine believes. unlikely to happen as the cia operates above the law. no cia officer ever. will ever serve. a prison a prison term even in the united states of convicted of

a crime these people are simply above the law in fact the only thing that the cia does is to conduct illegal activities which is why it's above the law it's businesses doing things that are illegal so the fact that it's found guilty in europe or asia or south america or any place of doing it legal things is simply a confirmation of what it does the cia is not a rogue elephant that does things without prior authorization from congress and the president and it's national security officers everything that it does is policy. farther into the r.c. world update we go to some other global headlines for you now a brief for start with a powerful cycling seven it's now approaching the islands of fiji it's already devastated parts of samoa leaving at least four people dead and eight injured the cyclon is expected to make landfall on sunday night fiji's interim prime minister

has warned the entire country will be affected. it's been announced that a computer hacker gary mckinnon it will face no charges in the u.k. the forty six year old waged a decade long struggle to avoid trial for one of the largest ever breaches into the computers of the us military and nasa shortly after the attacks of nine eleven u.k. prosecutors said there was little chance of a conviction earlier this year his extradition to the u.s. was finally blocked. by many britons are preparing for a scant christmas dinner with soaring food prices forcing people to ditch the traditional holiday delicacies for the cost of food has soared by a third in just five years leaving many families without an opportunity to even try and eat in a rather healthy manner and this report two artes police car. do you look at what you're putting in your shopping basket health conscious customers might want to

stock up on their fruit and vege but what if that's getting too expensive for families in the u.k. the cost of their weekly shop has gone up by over a third over the past five years and it's set to get more expensive still among the healthier fresh meat so you can find chicken breasts for five ninety nine per kilogram and you've got your frozen process dennis retailing at one twenty nine in some cases now if you're a struggling household with lots of mouths to feed it's a no brainer britain is now in the midst of a nutritional recession to go hand in hand with the financial one every million children in the u.k. are going without a daily healthy meal now the coalition government provides free free to move to schools and they supplement those on the lower income but it looks like the cheaper meal deals are often more appealing than the government health warnings health campaign to say it's time for the government to seventeen you plan to get britain struggling households to acquire not just the taste but also the means for

a healthier diet. is part of right there as austerity measures will continue to cause misery for the far away from those problems using themselves with deals of course all to. see her but it will be revealing later. as america got it in for british banks here that is britain who is played a little too like the al capone of the global financial and military industrial complex system and now al capone's turning on them when they're all sots but al capone in this case the u.s. regulators they won you know the u.k. to basically hire their cousin vinny h.s.b.c. for example has hired two former senior u.s. treasury officials to run is legal in compliance so far these u.k. bankers are going to find a wake up of all their skull hanging from friers bridge like. eighteen. hello british banker hanging from friars branch the next you deserve.

this is and there is now a just over a week until christmas for many that means the excitement of what's waiting for everybody under the tree while the shopping industry is ready to satisfy every wish these resident new yorker asks locals if the festive spirit is turning into a shopaholic some marathon. why have the holidays become such hellish days this week let's talk about that it's a commercial thing now everyone's so on to spend money it's not about what it really should be about how did that happen is it the media telling us to buy buy buy lay absolutely at everyone with their sales and absolutely i live on what people buy you know and i'm an independent sales rep so i depend on it so you're having with this curse but i'm happy this christmas i sell luxury goods as long as

people keep buying it that i have a holiday that's it a way to stop that would be to go back to church and to read the bible and to find faith and to remember what the holiday is supposed to be for what about people of other religions and it is there anything for them i said i said to find religion. is there saving for them i believe in christianity but i think it's important that whether it's christiane to be or not that you have morals and values based on religious faith do you think there's a war in christmas oh i don't think there's a war on christmas i just think people shouldn't think that every year has to be the best christmas ever is that what we do we set our expectations too high we do i think that we should just enjoy it that each year should be a nice christmas with a couple of presents maybe full of press that's right along with the feeling of safety and community with all these holidays also remind people believe or not that's just my opinion holidays remind people of their own mortality that we're not

going to be around here very much longer and our lives are very short. because we tend to remember the people who have gone on the holidays as well and that's why we p.c. the holidays we just want to feel safe we want to feel like i'm extending my time here a little bit more and i want you to believe what i believe that maybe is someone other than someone else's beliefs makes us feel better and that's exactly what we're taking a chill doses of approaching the fiscal cliff is not as much about. shopping this year as all the rest of our fifty nine years sixty of you are going to be a little bit different how you can do it differently. are the same but it was going to be a phrasebook. just watching people make christmas and calling it a day like whether or not the world has lost its holiday spirit the bottom line is it wouldn't hurt any of us to take a look inside to find our own private reason to celebrate this thing than.

stay home but the cars are poured interests are. looking at some jokes you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as australia canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia and now it's chance come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how

racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top sled dog racing who set the trail of place but a nun and for all friends who brought their dia to life. five years ago. bill to dog kennel in the village kids from the local open h. came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed to the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly updates their websites and they're in touch with the busy mother twenty four seven on the phone these. children are the most important thing my only interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky

has huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts. oh nice keyser welcome to the kaiser report let me ask you something do you ever get the feeling that the search for bankers and just plain out banks serves rule in our world are like truth was beth is ripping up copper wiring roofing and plumbing the very fabric of our society and economy around this.